Questions: Why did they call for ending slavery?

Questions:

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  Why did they call for ending slavery?
  
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  Who are the eyewitnesses of slavery?
  
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  What is the Underground Railroad?
  
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  Who is Harriet Tubman?
  
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  What barriers?
  
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  What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
  
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  What called for women’s rights? Abolitionists Call for Ending Slavery
  
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  Abolition is the movement to end slavery
  
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  David Walker, printed a pamphlet called Appeal, urging slaves to revolt
  
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  White people tried to abolish slavery too, William Lloyd Garrison published a abolitionist newspaper
  
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  Sarah and Angelina Grimke believed that slavery was morally wrong and moved north to join an antislavery society
  
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  John Quincy Adams tried to abolish slavery, but congressman tried to stop him, but Adams saved some African Americans Eyewitnesses to Slavery
  
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  Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth spoke from their own experience of slavery
  
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  Douglass published an autobiography of his slave experiences, he also began to publish an antislavery newspaper
  
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  Sojourner Truth had fled her owners and went to live with Quakers, who then set her free. They also helped her win a court battle to recover her young son and speaking for abolition, she drew huge crowds in the North The Underground Railroad
  
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  Abolitionists created the Underground railroad, which was an above ground series of escape routes from South to North
  
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  Some enslaved people would find unusual routes to freedom, like Henry Brown, who hid in a box
  
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  The runaways traveled by night, and hid by day in places called stations
  

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  Harriet Tubman was one of the most famous conductors for the Underground Railroad, she had fainting spells
  
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  Tubman had escaped and then made 19 journeys to free enslaved people; she carried a pistol and medicine. She had saved her parents
  

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  Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were part of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Men claimed that it was not a women’s place to speak in public
  
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  William Lloyd Garrison joined them
  
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  Stanton applauded him for giving up his chance to speak on abolition, the cause for which he fought so long
  
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  Women in the 1800s enjoyed few legal or political rights
  
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  Stanton and Mott held a convention for women’s rights
  

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  This convention attracted between 100 and 00 women and men
  
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  During the convention on women read the Declaration of Independence, which inspired the planners to write a document modeled on it
  
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  Every resolution won unanimous approval from the group except suffrage, or the right to vote
  
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  In 1852, the New York Herald poked fun at women who wanted “to vote, and to hustle with the rowdies at the polls”
  

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  In the mid 1800s, three women lent powerful voices to the growing women’s movement
  
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  Because Sojourner Truth supported controversial cause of abolition, the convention for women’s rights feared her appearance would make their own cause less popular
  
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  Maria Mitchell fought for women’s equality by helping found the Association for the Advancement of women, she was also an astronomer
  
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  Susan B. Anthony was a skilled organizer who built the women’s movement into a national organization, supported laws that would give married women rights of theirs to own property and wages
  
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  Women suffrage stayed out of reach until the 1900s and the U.S. government did not abolish slavery until 1865